Forget head-to-toe black, hearses and sombre dirges. Modern funerals are more likely to see mourners dressed as superheroes and the deceased making their final journey in a pink cadillac to the ...

LONDON — In the affluent neighborhood of Crouch End in London, a new business is attracting some attention. The storefront’s blue-and-white facade is airy and minimalist. Three polka-dot vases on ...

Except for the coffin, it looks like an ordinary kitchen. A steaming kettle sits on the stove and the smell of brownies wafts through the air. The scene is part of a St. Louis mortuary that is trying ...

Sky News anchor Colin Brazier has asked those attending his wife’s funeral not to wear bright colours, requesting that mourners “leave their Hawaiian shirts and pink helium balloons at home” and ...

Personalised modern funerals are becoming more common with many also conscious of the environment and the rising costs of funerals. Kate Bottley, who is a vicar in North Nottinghamshire, revealed on ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The sun shone bright and hot. In the branches of a nearby tree fern a tui danced, hopping and flicking as if to supervise the mourners ...

This week, we’re talking with Louise Winter, the funeral director and founder of Poetic Endings, as well as the co-director of the initiative Life. Death. Whatever. Poetic Endings is an award-winning ...

Sign up for the best picks from our travel, fashion and lifestyle writers. A shabby chic hall in Peckham festooned with fairy lights. Waiters shuffle through the ...

The House is a new tradition-defying funeral home. It takes an artistic view of the end of a person’s life. The House, which launched in Sydney in April, wants to break with tradition to make funerals ...